Job Description
Grant Writer, Family Medicine
Entity: Aga Khan University
Location: Karachi, Pakistan
Introduction:
Aga Khan University, chartered in 1983 as Pakistan’s first private international University, is committed to the provision of education, research, and health care based on international standards relevant to Pakistan and the region. The affiliated Aga Khan University Hospital provides state-of-the-art clinical facilities and well-equipped diagnostic services. The University currently has teaching sites in Pakistan, East Africa, the United Kingdom, and Afghanistan and is a major component of the Aga Khan Development Network.
AKU is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to safeguarding and aims to adopt appropriate standards for ensuring and promoting a respectful relationship with and between all faculty, staff, trainees, volunteers, beneficiaries, wider communities, and other stakeholders with whom it works, including children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees/trainees and partners to share this commitment.
Responsibilities:
The incumbent will be responsible for:
- working with the team to develop short-term goals for expansion of research;
- using online databases, grant directories, and funding websites to research potential grant opportunities;
- exploring government grants, private foundations, corporate grants, and nonprofit organization;
- writing grant proposal by conducting a thorough review of existing literature;
- collaborating with the faculty members(s) in identifying relevant;
- reviewing the call for proposals for the terms & conditions and documents required;
- providing information to core team for submission of grant applications and obtaining internal approvals;
- searching for grant opportunities announced by the government and non-government agencies;
- carefully reviewing the call for proposals for the terms & conditions and timelines;
- working with the chair, faculty members, and the respective director(s) to draft grant proposals and support documents based on the funding requirements of the funding agencies;
- providing details to the departmental grant managers for the development of the budget and complete pre-award review process;
- facilitating in submitting proposals to the granting agency on behalf of the PI and respond to the queries related to the submitted proposals;
- maintaining recordsandsubmittingreportsrelatedtograntopportunities.
Requirements:
The incumbent should have:
- a Master's degree in public health, or related disciplines. Candidates with MBBS/PhD will be preferred;
- excellent research, organizational, and communications skills;
- excellent writing and editing skills;
- ability to work under tight deadlines;
- proven work experience as a Grant Writer or similar role;
- study and understand the objectives of the research team.
Comprehensive reference checks will be conducted.
